HELLOOOO. Here's the 2nd and last part of The Long Game. I never really liked Adam he annoyed me a bit. Anyway, I'd like 10 reviews before I update again pllleeasseeee (you can't see but I'm pouting haha) I'll probably end up updating on Friday or Saturday btw.

Anyway, please send me questions or your thoughts on Nina! it would mean a lot. if you asked a question I'll answer it on the next update so please do!

~09~

"But you've never been to another floor? Not even one floor down?" The Doctor persisted, sitting down on the head thing chair.

Cathica just shrugged. "I went to floor sixteen when I first arrived. That's medical. That's when I got my head done, and then I came straight here. Satellite Five, you work, eat and sleep on the same floor. That's it, that's all…You're not management, are you?"

I just shrugged, smiling at her while the Doctor said, sarcastically "At last. She's clever." Which made me roll my eyes at him. This man really needed to get really drunk or something… That's it! Nina Mission One: Get the Doctor mind-boggling drunk.

"Yeah, well, whatever it is, don't involve me. I don't know anything." Cathica huffed.

"Don't you even ask?" I asked, leaning on the side of the chair.

"Well, why would I?"

"You're a journalist." The Doctor answered. "Why's all the crew human?"

"What's that got to do with anything?" she said, confused.

"There's no aliens on board. Why?"

She just shrugged "I don't know. No real reason. They're not banned or anything."

"Then where are they?" I raised an eye brow. Well I would have, if I could that is. So it was more that I attempted to raise an eyebrow.

"I suppose immigration's tightened up." She defended. "It's had to, what with all the threats."

"What threats?" The Doctor asked at the same time as I said "Threats?" causing us to glace at each other quickly. This wasn't the first time today we had spoken together, and it was getting kind of weird.

"I don't know all of them. Usual stuff. And the price of space warp doubled so that kept the visitors away. Oh, and the government on Chavic Five's collapsed, so that lot stopped coming, you see. Just lots of little reasons, that's all."

"Adding up to one great big fact, and you didn't even notice." The Doctor rose his eye brow. Damn even he could do it.

"Doctor, I think if there was any kind of conspiracy, Satellite Five would have seen it. We see everything." Cathica explained

"I can see better." Oh how modest you are Doctor. "This society's the wrong shape, even the technology."

"It's cutting edge!" she protested.

"It's backwards. There's a great big door in your head. You should've chucked this out years ago."

"So, what do you think's going on?" Rose asked the Doctor, joining the conversation.

"It's not just this space station, it's the whole attitude. It's the way people think. The great and bountiful Human Empire's stunted. Something's holding it back." The Doctor explained.

"And how would you know?" Cathica asked, obviously getting slightly frustrated.

"Trust me," the Doctor gave her a look. "Humanity's been set back about ninety years. When did Satellite Five start broadcasting?"

"…Ninety one years ago."

~09~

We crowded around The Doctor as pulled out his sonic screw driver. "Oh!" I clapped excitedly, causing the Doctor to jump slightly and look over at me.

"What?"

I pointed at the sonic "Can I do it? Pleasee!" I pouted at him.

He rolled his eyes before handing it over to me "Go on then, flip the switch and point it at the lock."

I grinned doing as he said. "We are so going to get in trouble. You're not allowed to touch the mainframe. You're going to get told off." Cathica fretted, catching up to us.

Without looking away from what I was doing the Doctor said "Rose, tell her to button it."

"You can't just vandalise the place. Someone's going to notice!" she continued as the door popped open. Yes! Nina: Master Sonic Screwdriver User.

"Not bad," the Doctor nodded at me before turning back to the mess of wires, pulling at them.

"This is nothing to do with me. I'm going back to work." Cathica announced.

"Go on, then. See you!" The Doctor replied without looking away from what he was doing.

"I can't just leave you, can I!"

Rose looked over at her "If you want to be useful, get them to turn the heating down. It's boiling. What's wrong with this place? Can't they do something about it?"

She just shrugged "I don't know. We keep asking. Something to do with the turbine."

"Something to do with the turbine." The Doctor muttered under his breath

"Well, I don't know!"

The Doctor turned to her "Exactly. I give up on you, Cathica. Now, Rose. Look at Rose. Rose is asking the right kind of question. "

"Oi!" I protested "What about me, I opened the door!"

He just waved me off. Oh rude. "Why is it so hot?"

"One minutes you're worried about the Empire and the next it's the central heating!" Cathica threw her hands up in exasperation.

"Well, never underestimate plumbing. Plumbing's very important." Just as he said that he pulls out a huge handful of wires causing Cathica to sigh and turn away. "Here we go." He straightened up showing us some monitor with what looked like a blue print. "Satellite Five, pipes and plumbing. Look at the layout."

"This is ridiculous. You've got access to the computer's core. You can look at the archive, the news, the stock exchange and you're looking at pipes?" Cathica said incredulously.

"But there's something wrong?" I asked looking between the Doctor and Cathica.

Cathica shrugged. "I suppose."

"Why, what is it?" Rose asked.

"The ventilation system. Cooling ducts, ice filters, all working flat out channelling massive amounts of heat down."

"All the way from the top." The Doctor pointed at the top of the blue print thingy.

"Floor five hundred." Rose and I said that the same time.

"Something up there is generating tons and tons of heat." The Doctor informed us.

"Well, I don't know about you, but I feel like I'm missing out on a party. It's all going on upstairs." Rose said "Fancy a trip?"

I grinned at her "I've always wanted to see walls made out of gold."

"You can't." Cathica protested, she seemed to be doing a lot of that recently. "You need a key."

"Keys are just codes, and I've got the codes right here." The Doctor replied, playing with the monitor. "Here we go. Override two one five point nine." The numbers appeared on the screen: 215.9976/31

"How come it's given you the code?" Cathica asked.

The Doctor looked up a bit "Someone up there likes me."

~09~

"Come on. Come with us." Rose said as all of us were stood outside the open lift doors.

She shook her head. "No way."

"Bye!' The Doctor said giving her an over exaggerated smile and wave as the three of us stepping into the lift.

"Well, don't mention my name. When you get in trouble, just don't involve me." She yelled back at us as the doors closed.

"That's her gone." The Doctor commented. "Adam's given up. Looks like it's just you, me and the little leprechaun over here." He nodded at me.

"Shut it, Big ears." I snapped back.

There was a moment of silence before the Doctor said "Good."

Rose and I both grinned at him and said "Yep."

~09~

We exited the lift into an area covered in white. Snow.

"Well, the walls aren't made3 of gold," I commented.

"You should go back downstairs, both of you." The Doctor stated.

"Tough." Rose replied and I nodded along with her.

We started to walk through the space, making our way through some sort of door. It was freezing by the way! There was a man with bleach white hair and pale skin. He looked kinda albino. There was a group of people seated in front of the monitors.

"I started without you." The albino man said. "This is fascinating. Satellite Five contains every piece of information within the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. Birth certificates, shopping habits, bank statements, but you three, you don't exist. Not a trace. No birth, no job, not the slightest kiss. How can you walk through the world and not leave a single footprint?"

That's when my eyes landed on Suki, who was sitting motionless on one of the chairs. Rose ran over to her and I tried to follow but the Doctor grabbed by hand, pulling me back. "Suki. Suki! Hello? Can you hear me? Suki? What have you done to her?" Rose demanded.

"I think she's dead." The Doctor said causing me to look up at him.

"But she's working." I pointed to where her hands where placed on the prints.

"They've all got chips in their head, and the chips keep going, like puppets." The Doctor practically growled. I kept my gaze on Suki, stepping slightly closer to the Doctor for comfort.

"Oh! You're full of information." The man grinned. "But it's only fair we get some information back, because apparently, you're no one. It's so rare not to know something. Who are you?"

The Doctor just shrugged. "It doesn't matter, because we're off. Nice to meet you. Come on." He stated to pull me back the way we came. Rose stood up to follow but Zombie Suki grabbed her arm, two others came up beside the Doctor and I grabbing a hold of us too.

"Tell me who you are." The man glared at the Doctor.

"Since that information's keeping us alive, I'm hardly going to say, am I." the Doctor stated, obviously.

The man grinned, evilly. "Well, perhaps my Editor in Chief can convince you otherwise."

I raised my eyebrow. "And who's that?" the Doctor gave me a look to tell me to be quiet

"It may interest you to know that this is not the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. In fact, it's not actually human at all. It's merely a place where humans happen to live." He informed us, a growly sound sounded around us as the man seemed to answer it. "Yeah. Yeah, sorry. It's a place where humans are allowed to live by kind permission of my client."

Curiously I looked up, because well this dude was talking to the roof and either he was crazy or there was something up there. My eyes went straight to the giant blob alien that seemed like it was stuck to the roof, kind of screeching in its alien language. Well you don't see that every day.

"What is that?" Rose asked, obviously seeing the creature too. Although it is kind of hard to miss…

"You mean that thing's in charge of Satellite Five?" The Doctor asked, incredulously.

The pale dude glared at him "That thing, as you put it, is in charge of the human race. For almost a hundred years, mankind has been shaped and guided, his knowledge and ambition strictly controlled by its broadcast news, edited by my superior, your master, and humanity's guiding light, the mighty Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe. I call him Max."

~09~

So we had been placed in some weird black handcuff things. They were kind of annoying really. Like we'd been here for a while couldn't he have let us sit down or something? No manners.

"Create a climate of fear and it's easy to keep the borders closed." The dude that was apparently called 'the editor' or something informed us. "It's just a matter of emphasis. The right word in the right broadcast repeated often enough can destabilise an economy, invent an enemy, change a vote."

"So all the people on Earth are like, slaves." Rose accused.

"Well, now, there's an interesting point. Is a slave a slave if he doesn't know he's enslaved?" the editor asked, raising his eyebrow.

"Yes." The Doctor and I said simltanueously.

The Editor frowned. "Oh. I was hoping for a philosophical debate. Is that all I'm going to get? Yes?"

The Doctor and I looked at each other. "Yes."

"You're no fun." He all but pouted. This dude was messed up.

"Let me out of these manacles. You'll find out how much fun I am." The Doctor gets tough! Woah.

"Oh, he's tough, isn't he. But, come on. Isn't it a great system? You've got to admire it, just a little bit."

"You can't hide something on this scale. Somebody must have noticed." I spoke up.

The Editor shrugged. "From time to time, someone, yes, but the computer chip system allows me to see inside their brains. I can see the smallest doubt and crush it." He grinned. Like I said. m-e-s-s-e-d up. "Then they just carry on, living the life, strutting about downstairs and all over the surface of the Earth like they're so individual, when of course, they're not. They're just cattle. In that respect, the Jagrafess hasn't changed a thing."

Movement behind the Editor dude crossed my vision and I strained to see what it was without alerting him. I spotted dark dredlocks…. Cathica!

"W-what about you? You're not a Jagrabelly" Rose started, obviously having seen Cathica too.

"Jagrafess." The Doctor corrected.

"Jagrafess." Rose nodded. "You're not a Jagrafess. You're human."

The Editor shrugged "Yeah, well, simply being human doesn't pay very well."

"But you couldn't have done this all on your own." I pointed out.

"No. I represent a consortium of banks. Money prefers a long-term investment. Also, the Jagrafess needed a little hand to install himself." Oh gross, I can't even imagine touching that thing… no offence to the Jagrafess-ians…

"No wonder, a creature that size. What's his life span?" The Doctor asked.

"Three thousand years."

"That's one hell of a metabolism generating all that heat. That's why Satellite Five's so hot. You pump it out of the creature, channel it downstairs. Jagrafess stays cool, it stays alive. Satellite Five is one great big life support system." The Doctor realised.

The Editor turned on him. "But that's why you're so dangerous. Knowledge is power, but you remain unknown. Who are you?" he snapped his fingers making a surge of energy to shoot up the manacles that the three of us were attached too. A deep rooted sense of pain ran down my arms causing me to grit my teeth in pain and struggle, which just made it worse.

"Leave them alone!" The Doctor yelled. "I'm the Doctor, they are Rose Tyler and Nina Gibbons. We're nothing, we're just wandering."

"Tell me who you are!" the Editor demanded.

"I just said!"

"Yes, but who do you work for? Who sent you? Who knows about us? Who exactly-" he cut himself as the Jagrafess thingy growled. He looked down at the Doctor and grinned. "Time Lord."

The Doctor creased his forehead in confusion "What?"

He just grinned wider "Oh, yes. The last of the Time Lords in his travelling machine. Oh, with his little human girls from long ago." How did he know that?

"You don't know what you're talking about." The Doctor protested.

"Time travel."

"Someone's been telling you lies." He denied.

"Young master Adam Mitchell?" a large monitor thing appeared with Adam sitting in that broadcast chair with that weird head thing. What the hell.

"Oh, my God. His head!" Rose commented.

"What the hell's he done? What the hell's he gone and done? They're reading his mind. He's telling them everything." The Doctor yelled, angrily.

"What. An. Idiot." I added.

"And through him, I know everything about you. Every piece of information in his head is now mine. And you have infinite knowledge, Doctor. The Human Empire is tiny compared to what you've seen in you S. Tardis." The Editor laughed, gleefully.

"Well, you'll never get your hands on it. I'll die first." The Doctor informed him.

The Editor waved him off "Die all you like. I don't need you. I've got the key." As he said this the key rose from Adam's pocket on the monitor. This kid. God.

"You sure know how to pick them." I commented to Rose at the same time the Doctor said. "You and your boyfriends!"

"Today, we are the headlines. We can rewrite history. We could prevent mankind from ever developing." The Editor informed us.

"And no one's going to stop you because you've bred a human race that doesn't bother to ask questions. Stupid little slaves, believing every lie. They'll just trot right into the slaughter house if they're told it's made of gold." Well that was a little rude… Oh kidding I know what he's doing, Cathica!

There was a pause before alarms started to sound. "What's happening?" The Editor ran over to one of the computers. "Someone's disengaged the safety. Who's that?"

The image on the monitor changed from Adam to "It's Cathica." I grinned.

"And she's thinking. She's using what she knows." The Doctor grinned back at me.

"Terminate her access." The Editor demanded.

"Everything I told her about Satellite Five. The pipes, the filters, she's reversing it. Look at that." We looked around, the icicles were starting to melt!

"It's getting hot!" I laughed slightly.

The Editor turned to the zombie Suki "I said, terminate. Burn out her mind."

The consoles and everything started to explode the zombie people collapsing. There was an explosion close to the manacles causing mine to pop open. I grinned. Yes!

"She's venting the heat up here. The Jagrafess needs to stay cool and now it's sitting on top of a volcano." The Doctor continued.

The Jagrafess started to growl loudly. "Yes, I'm trying, sir, but I don't know how she did it. It's impossible. A member of staff with an idea." The Editor pleaded to it, turning to push Suki out of her seat, taking over. I turned to Rose and the Doctor, trying to think of a way to get them out… the sonic screwdriver! I still had it!

I pulled it out of my pocket grinning at them "Aren't you glad I know how to use this now?"

The Doctor just rolled his eyes "Flick the switch!" he then turned to the Editor as I started on his manacles after I had let Rose out of hers. "Oi, mate, want to bank on a certainty? Massive heat in a massive body, massive bang. See you in the headlines!"

I finally got his manacles off and turned back around "Bye!" I waved.

The Doctor grabbed my hand pulling me back towards the lift as icicles started to fall around us. "Come on!"

~09~

We were back on level 139 standing with Cathica. Many people were crowded in groups, helping out the people who had been injured. "We're just going to go. I hate tidying up. Too many questions. You'll manage." The Doctor told Cathica.

"You'll have to stay and explain it!" Cathica protested. "No one's going to believe me."

The Doctor shrugged. "Oh, they might start believing a lot of things now. The human race should accelerate. All back to normal."

"What about your friend?" she asked. Ah Adam.

The Doctors face went dark. "He's not my friend."

"Now, don't." Rose warned as the 'friend' mentioned walked up to us with a sheepish look on his face.

"I'm all right now. Much better. And I've got the key. Look, it's. It all worked out for the best, didn't it? You know, it's not actually my fault, because you were in charge."

The Doctor didn't say anything, just dragged him into the TARDIS. Ohhh someone's in trouble!

~09~

When we exited the TARDIS again we were in a cosy little lounge room. Cute.

"It's my house. I'm home! Oh, my God, I'm home! Blimey. I thought you were going to chuck me out of an airlock." Adam exclaimed looking around the room.

The Doctor folded his arms. "Is there something else you want to tell me?"

Adam looked at him confused. "No. What do you mean?"

The Doctor raised his eyebrow, walking over to the answering machine on a small vintage wooden table. "The archive of Satellite Five. One second of that message could've changed the world." He pointed his sonic screwdriver (which he made me give back to him sadly. Queue the pout) causing the answering machine to explode. "That's it, then. See you." He made his way back over to the TARDIS doors.

"How do you mean, see you?" Adam asked, confused.

"As in goodbye." He gave him a little mock wave.

"But what about me? You can't just go. I've got my head. I've got a chip type two. My head opens." Adam protested.

"What, like this?" The Doctor clicked his fingers,causing the creepy brain door thing to open.

"Don't." he clicked his fingers causing it to close.

"Don't do what?" I grinned, clicking my fingers, opening it.

"Stop it!" Close.

"All right now, both of you, that's enough. Stop it." Rose stepped in.

"Thank you." Rose smiles slightly, clicking her fingers. Open. "Oi!"

"Sorry, I couldn't resist." She said causing me to laugh.

"The whole of history could have changed because of you." The Doctor glared at him.

"I just wanted to help!"

"You were helping yourself." He snapped.

"And I'm sorry. I've said I'm sorry, and I am, I really am, but you can't just leave me like this!" he pleaded.

"Yes I can. 'Cause if you show that head to anyone, they'll dissect you in seconds. You'll have to live a very quiet life. Keep out of trouble. Be average, unseen. Good luck." He opened the door of the TARDIS.

"But I want to come with you."

The Doctor shook his head "I only take the best. I've got Rose." He looked down at me smirking "And this little kid, I guess." He walked inside.

I followed him in. "Oi, get back here!"

~09~